The Impact of Lumbar Stabilization and Thoracic Mobilization Exercises on Pain, Disability and Quality of Life in Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of adding thoracic mobilization to lumbar stabilization exercises for managing chronic low back pain (CLBP). Fifty-four CLBP patients were randomly assigned to two groups: the Lumbar Stabilization (LS) group and the Lumbar Stabilization plus Thoracic Mobilization (LS+TM) group. Pain intensity, functional disability, and quality of life were assessed using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Quebec Low Back Pain Disability Scale (QLPSD), and EuroQOL-5D-3L, respectively. Both groups participated in a six-week intervention with three sessions per week. Significant improvements were observed in pain intensity, functional disability, and quality of life for both groups (p < 0.05). However, post-intervention analyses indicated that the LS+TM group experienced superior reductions in functional disability and greater enhancements in quality of life compared to the LS group (p < 0.05). While both exercise regimens were effective in managing CLBP, the addition of thoracic mobilization to lumbar stabilization exercises provided more significant benefits in functional recovery and overall well-being.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.016 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".